Madeira
November 1999

The reason of this vacation was once again a world championships in artistic cycling. This year we explored the small island Madeira in the atlantic ocean.
The vacation started with a highlight. We landed on the sixth shortest runway of the world, and it was the only runway I remember that had a turning-point at the end... The island itself is wonderful, unfortunately it has no beach. The visitor is expected a lot of steep coasts, also with the second highest cape in the world (580m). Moreover Madeira has four climate zones, and all of this on 56km of island! What a pitty that we had some fog when we visited the 1.400m high elevated plain Paul da Sera and the visibility was only 50m at some places, but with some sunshine it must be very impressive up there. The island has its own charme. Only in Funchal you can feel the tourism from time to time. The east coast with the peninsula Sao Laurenco is very good for hiking. Directly at the atlantic with an amazing view! I loved Madeira, even if the championships didn't bring the success...

	Cabo Girao The second highest Cape in the world (580m)
Funchal		Houses in Santana

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